Iron Pour Project

In 2011, SAFE worked with social care provider Alternative Futures,

local metal artists and dementia-patients to deliver a bespoke metal art project in Merseyside.The work involved workshops with residents of a hospital for people living with dementia alongside support staff and their relatives and the themes for the sculptures were influenced by the residents themselves. Using a mobile cupola iron furnace to pour molten metal into moulds on‐site in the hospital grounds was a hugely engaging and socially inclusive working process.

‘For every £1 invested, a social return of £8.38 will be achieved’. This was the findings of a Social Return on Investment (SROI) report on some of the organisational members of the SAFE Consortium in January 2014. Follow the link for more details and full report – it makes for interesting reading...